Living in London; Traveling and Eating Everywhere

Crazy Homies Restaurant, Notting Hill

Friends I trust have raved for ages about Crazy Homies restaurant, so once again, the Tex Mex trail lead me to Notting Hill.

Calling Crazy Homies a restaurant is a little misleading — it’s more like a charming, quirky closet that somehow manages to find room enough to serve tequila and simple, fresh food at three or four cafe tables. (If you’re super lucky, you can snag the comparatively-big five-person round table in the back corner).

Except for a few misses (avoid the greasy, over-salty, admittedly-un-Mexican goat-cheese taquitos), I enjoyed my lunch there. And did I mention it’s cheap? £13 per person covered a shared appetizer, a main course and a drink.

Nachos (photo at top) consisted of crispy, freshly-fried tortilla chips and piles of beans, guac and sour cream. Full disclosure: if you pile enough sour cream and guac on it, I will eat it.

The filling in my pork picadillo tacos was moist and spicy, especially with help from fragrant salsa verde. If I ruled the world, there’d have been a little less filling to enable the corn tortillas to be a little less thick, but I’m in London, so beggars can’t be choosers, and I’m just glad the corn tortillas tasted of corn.

I’d go back to Crazy Homies on the basis of how fresh and cheap the food was, but right now I’m still a Green and Red supporter when it comes to tacos in London.

Wow… So I was enjoying reading your other reviews and thinking I might have found someone who’s advice I could take. Until I read this review.

I can thoroughly understand your negative opinion of Taqueria as it is atrociously overpriced, but it has always been tasty and as authentic as the food I’ve had in Mexico (admittedly for 20x the price but this is London and sometimes I get desperate). But all their dishes I’ve tried taste great. And have been hot with a notable exception or two when they were disappointingly warm. They were apologetic.

But you like Crazy Homies?? Yuck! Crazy Homies is revolting and fails at anything remotely Mexican or even Tex Mex with nothing better than bland on the menu. Your photos look great, but nowhere even similar to our expoerience. Maybe I felt the bill was expensive because every dish that came to our table was a fail. Drinks were horrid too. The 4 or us left feeling we had been tricked into eating there by inaccurate reviews and that it must only succeed as a restaurant because the people who eat there have never had Mexican or Tex Mex and have probably never been outside of the UK at all.

I often eat bad Tex Mex in London doused with decent Margaritas because I get tired of the effort it takes to make a good & varied Tex Mex spread at home but I will never again stoop to supporting Crazy Homies even though they are a 5 min walk from my house. I hope they go bust.

Hi KC – for what it’s worth, this post is dated January 2008, so it’s possible Crazy Homies now sucks as badly as you say it does. And maybe Taqueria has improved since I had my last horrendous experience there. I rarely eat in Notting Hill anymore, to be honest.

Overall, though, I’ve learned to make my own tacos at home. It seems the best route in London, now that Green & Red is closed and I didn’t think Wahaca was worth queuing for.